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REVIEW: Re:ZERO Novel 1

With only paragraph breaks, sometimes there are problems because consecutive paragraphs are spoken by the same person, or because a conversation has at least three participants, making it difficult to determine if a paragraph following a comment by A is spoken by B or C. (I have encountered this problem in quite a few commercial translations, certainly including Spice and Wolf, No Game No Life, and The Devil is a Part-Timer!

Perhaps leaving the interjections inline, but in a different font (as sometimes employed by Terry Prachett) would have been a better solution in this case?

I dont really see a point it buying this now since theres not alot of new content added, perhaps if chapters has another of their buy 3 get 1 free sales i might consider it..

Dayblack wrote:

ThatGuyWhoLikesThings wrote: Dayblack wrote: Since starting the arc 3 in the anime, which is the light novel 4 it is a must read. The anime a lot of important information omitted. Re zero it is one of the bad adaptations of the year. Nothing omitted was important except for the speeches of the candidates, and that was for time constraints. The anime is fantastic. You know nothing friend you not read the Japanese, like me. Many times have come to light novel omit half the anime. A light novel adaptation of at least needs 6 chapters of anime for a light novel, but re zero to 2 light novels adapted into anime 2 chapters each and the 6th novel in 3 chapters of anime. The 7th light novel that begins Sunday will also tailored in 2 chapters of anime. In total nine light novels are adapted into 25 chapters anime. They have skipped many important things such as spoiler[the fact that AL also comes from another world and came 10 years ago, etc.] From my years of reading light novels and four years ago I studied Japanese, I can tell you with 100% certainty that re zero is a bad adaptation. If you had the opportunity to read light novels, it would realize how awful it is anime.

Oh Please. I've read both the LN/WN and nothing important besides some irrelevant romcom scenes between Rem and Subaru and some gory stuff were removed. I'm sure it was done for the sake of tonal and thematic consistency and spoiler[Al's reveal] was removed because it was an intrusive exposition which would have disrupted the flow of the story. Not to mention it was never brought up again in the later arcs of the WN so the staff clearly knows what they're doing.

First of all, Dayblack, you will use spoiler tags when detailing information left out of the anime adaptation, unless it is a relatively trivial detail. (There's always the chance that the anime will bring it up later.) I have added in the spoiler tags for you this time, but consider this an official Moderator directive.

Second, you don't automatically need six episodes of anime to adapt a LN. Although some anime adaptations do that (Spice and Wolf, The Devil is a Part-Timer), many anime LNs are just fine at 2-3 episodes/LN pace, especially if they have substantial action content. For instance, DanMachi spent only 13 episodes adapting its first five novels and came out just fine, with very little of significance skipped.

I'll also side with others insisting that an anime adaptation isn't awful just because it skips a few things. And I'll definitely side against any insistence that this particular anime is awful because of what it skips

You may yet be correct, but your argumentation is so poor that I think you almost certainly convince people who were on the fence that the opposite is true. I realize that you can't help the fact that English is not your native language and that does make your argument sound worse, but frankly it's the least of your worries. Your entire argument boils down to a combination of "it's not long enough for the amount of source material" and "just trust me due to my claimed Internet authority." The appeal to your own authority is especially unpersuasive here; some of us have considerably more studies in Japanese than "four years ago."

That leaves the second argument, which Key has well dealt with. Personally, I'd disagree a little bit with her about DanMachi, as I felt that it seemed a bit lacking on explanation and rushed towards the end for my tastes. (The problem for me may have lain in something other than adaptation issues, however.) However, Re: Zero as an anime has had excellent pacing so far in my opinion, and without more specific examples of important omitted content (properly spoiler protected) a mere argument from length is unpersuasive as well. The example you gave does not persuade at all (no more than bringing up Tom Bombadil will convince people that the Fellowship of the Ring movie was an "awful" adaptation.)

Dude a good adaptation doesn't mean a carbon copy of the book. Things get changed, removed, moved around to make it work better. You're getting another chance to fix the problems of the original story why wouldn't you use that to your advantage? Also from what I've heard the author or Re:Zero is heavily involved with the anime adaptation. Whatever changes made are likely passed by and approved by him.

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All who have read light novels danmachi know that was a bad adaptation.

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The author of the light novels is not helping with the production of anime, that's something I made it clear to those who ask in the comments of the webnovel.

Anime is considered maladaptive when the anime omits important things from the original material. Since starting the arc 3 in the anime began to omit important things in history (arc 3 corresponds to novels 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9). Therefore re zero it is maladaptive.

I know what you, you have 2 accounts animenewsnetwork one called Pierrot and the other is called ThatGuyWhoLikesThings. You are very pathetic. You can not Convens me that re zero is a good fit I read the original novels.

I read the comments of people in the webnovel, where the author asks if he is angry with production by poor adaptation.

Another small example is the story of Betelgeuse spoiler[ who was a friend of Emilia and Fortuna (the aunt Emilia), Betelgeuse goes crazy to believe that he had killed Fortuna, but actually Fortuna had killed 2 types cult of witches . Priscila tells Subaru that the world is flat and that she welcomed Al after arriving to the family of Emilia.] In the anime was completely omitted

The author of the light novels is not helping with the production of anime, that's something I made it clear to those who ask in the comments of the webnovel.

Dude a good adaptation doesn't mean a carbon copy of the book. Things get changed, removed, moved around to make it work better. You're getting another chance to fix the problems of the original story why wouldn't you use that to your advantage? Also from what I've heard the author or Re:Zero is heavily involved with the anime adaptation. Whatever changes made are likely passed by and approved by him.

DanMachi is a bad example, I read light novels, and I can say that omitted important things. It is another bad light novel adaptation. People who read the manga after the anime is very angry with production by all major explanations omitted from the anime. Even in critique the novel that made him here moderator would advise people to read light novels. . .

all who have read light novels danmachi know that was a bad adaptation.

No, its anime may not be an absolutely perfect adaptation of the novels

Dayblack seems unabashedly rude, incoherent, and aggressive. The incoherence is probably in part due to a lingual issue.

Nevertheless, rude and aggressive. Shouldn't that be against the forum rules? I don't know them, but I'd heard they were pretty restrictive. I don't often think they're appropriate, but a thread of people reacting to a guy angrily yelling that something is awful without evidence doesn't seem to have any general value. Now, if he began angrily yelling at people AND posting evidence...

Right Stuf: Standard discount = 25% = buy 3 get 1 free. This is every day. Yay.


Re:Zero artwork is beautiful btw. The manga is out as well. http://www.rightstufanime.com/search?keywords=rezero